Stone gallery.



PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

G. W. DOVER. STONE GALLERY. APPLICATION FILED MAY 3;, 1906,

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GEORGE WV. DOVER, OF ORANSTON, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE W. DOVERCOMPANY, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

1 STONE GALLERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentedjeb. 5. 1 907.

Application filed May 3, 1906. Serial No.. 315,009.

To all whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Dovnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oranston, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in StoneGalleries, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to stone galleries, and has for its objects besidesthe ends commonly sought in this class of structures a means formounting a series of gems rectilinearly dis posed in relation to eachother in a simple, inexpensive, and stable manner.

It is also purposed to afford a form of gallery which shall be capableof construction in a single piece from the marketed product known asseamless plated wire and which shall present when made of plated stock aminimum of base metal.

To the above ends myinvention consists in the novel structurehereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,wherein Figure 1 is a top plan View of a gallerystrip, showing aplurality of stones or gems mounted therein; Figs. 2, 3, and 4, transverse sections of the same on lines 2, 3, and 4, respectively, of Fi 1,Fig. 5, central longitudinal section of t e same; Fig. 6, a perspectiveview of a plated gallery, and Fig. 7 a transverse section of the same.

Like reference-letters indicate like parts throughout the views.

I11 carrying out my invention I employ a long bar or thick strip ofmetal A, rectangular in cross-section, which is composed Wholly of basemetal, such as brass, composition, or even silver. The block is sochanneled longitudinally by milling or otherwise as to produce twoupright lateral flanges a a, integral with the gallery-body a. Whenseamless wire is used, the precious-metal plating a will, as is shown inFigs. 6 and 7, cover the exterior of the flanges and all the body exceptthe upper surface thereof. It will be noted, therefore, that .thedescribed structure lends itself readily to the utilization of seamlessplated wire, which can be secured as an article of commerce and needonly be longitudinally milled, thereby avoiding the process of platingon the part of the settingmaker.

Conical seats or recesses 1) occur at intervals in the upper portion ofthe gallery-body.

In order to mount stones 0 in the new gallery, they are seated in therecesses Z), and the flanges a are inwardly bent down upon the marginsthereof by any suitable tool.

What I claim is 1. In a stone gallery, the combination with a bar in asingle piece having marginal flanges to overlap the edges of stones,said bar being provided in its upper surface with a series of conicalseats below said flanges, of stones in said seats with their edgesoverlapped by said marginal flanges.

. 2. A stone gallery composed of a straight rectangular bar in a singlepiece having lateral integral flanges, and conical seats in the upperface of the bar between its flanges.

3. In a stone gallery, the combination with a straight rectangular barin a single piece provided with flanges at its side edges and with seatsupon its upper face, of stones mounted in said seats and held by thebentover flanges of the bar.

4. In a stone gallery the combination with a straight rectangular bar ina single piece provided with a series of conical seats in its upperportion, of stones mounted in the seats, and marginal flanges upon thebar adapted to overlap the edges of the stones.

5. A stone gallery com rising a straight rectangular bar in a sing epiece, integral flanges upon the margins of the upper face of the bar,precious-metal platin upon the exterior ofthe flanges and the body, andrecesses for the stones in the upper portion of the bar below andintermediate the flanges.

6. In a stone gallery the combination with a straight rectangular bar ina single piece provided with a series of recesses in its upper facebelow and between the hereinafternamed flanges, of stones mounted in there. cesses, integral flanges upon the margins of the upper face of thebar adapted to positively engage the stones, and precious-metal platingupon the exterior of the flanges and body.

7. As an improved article of manufacture, a stone gallery composed of aflanged rectilinear bar of seamless plated wire longitudinally milled,and recesses for the reception of stones upon the upper face of the barbetween the flanges thereof.

8. As an improved article of manufacture, a stone gallery composed of aflanged rectilinear bar of seamless plated Wire longitu- In testimonywhereof I have affixed my dinally milled, and recesses for the receptionI signature in presence of two Witnesses. of stones upon the upper faceof the bar between the fianges thereof, the metal plating GEORGE DOVER 5of said seamless Wire covering the exterior of WVitnesses:

the flanges and all of the body except the up- M. V. BLEssING,

per surface thereof. ARTHUR O. STONE.

